HALSTON had a private
party for boyfriend VICTOR HUGO which was covered in the Small Talk section
of the February 1975 issue of Interview magazine. Guests included
Donna Jordan (L'Amour), Pat Ast (Heat), Sylvia Miles (Heat)
and a male Jackie Curtis.

FEBRUARY 2, 1975: LEE RADZIWILL ASKS WARHOL "DID YOU GO TO CHURCH TODAY?"

The fact that Warhol attended church regularly was relatively unknown at the time. During an interview with Lee Radziwill, conducted by Warhol and Fred Hughes for the March 1975 issue of Interview magazine, Warhol admitted going to church regularly and taking communion "sometimes."

Andy Warhol bought a new car, "moving up" from
a Mercedes to a new black, white and brown Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, instructing
his boyfriend Jed Johnson to tell people that he had traded it for art. He
later purchased another Rolls Royce in the summer of 1976 - an old and rare
station wagon, to use at his place in Montauk - although because of its condition,
"it never left the Southampton mechanic's garage". (BC242)

1975: LOU REED WRITES A MUSICAL.

Andy Warhol approached LOU REED to write songs for a musical
based on Warhol's recently published book 'The Philosophy of Andy Warhol'. Reed wrote the musical adaptation overnight.

Andy Warhol: "I was so surprised. He just came over
the next day and had it all done."

Lou Reed: "I played the songs for Andy. He was fascinated
but horrified. I think they kind of scared him." (LR271)

ca. 1975: LANCE LOUD JOINS INTERVIEW.

LANCE LOUD became a contributing editor of Interview
magazine, starting a monthly music column called Loudspeaker. (BC256)

MAY 28, 1975: ERIC EMERSON DIES.

ERIC EMERSON's body was found near the West Side Highway early
one morning. According to some accounts of the era, his body had been placed there after he overdosed on heroin.

1975:JACKIE CURTIS GRADUATES FROM
HUNTER COLLEGE.

MID-1975: ANDY WARHOL HIRES TWO MAIDS.

ANDY WARHOL hired a live-in Filipino housekeeper,
Nena, who was soon joined by her sister Aurora. (BC282)

FRED HUGHES asked Interview magazine financial
backer, PETER BRANT to help finance ANDY WARHOL'S BAD.
Peter agreed, as long as he could get out of financing Interview.
"Motion Olympus Inc" was replaced by "Interview Enterprises
Inc." on the masthead of the magazine. (BC262)

Andy Warhol's Ladies
and Gentlemen paintings aka the Drag Queen paintings are
exhibited by Ferrara at the Palazzo di Diamente in Italy. The paintings were never exhibited in the United States during
Warhol's life although prints from the series were. (BC228)

OCT. 1975:ANDY WARHOL GOES TO ENGLAND.

England was the last stop of the promotional tour for The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. Lord and Lady Lambton, parents of Ann Lambton who was part
of the promotional entourage, gave a
party for Warhol on the last night in London. Guests included the MARQUESS
and MARCHIONESS of DUFFERIN, LORD and LADY LICHFIELD, LADY DIANA COOPER, CHARLIE
TENNANT, PRINCESS ELIZABETH of YUGOSLAVIA, GUNTHER SACHS, LUCIEN FREUD, KEITH
MOON, MARTIN AMIS, CAROLINE KENNEDY, J.PAUL GETTY III, "and a woman in
rubber named Jordan, who worked in a King's Road boutique named Sex."
(BC318)

END 1975:MARC BALET JOINS INTERVIEW.

Balet was a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and Fran Lebowitz' "best friend." He was hired to be
the art director of Interview. He came to NY after winning the Prix du Rome for 2 years in Architecture. (BC249/MB)

At the party, Warhol "hardly noticed" the presence
of "a woman who could often be found exchanging hundred-dollar bills
for small packets of aluminum foil." (BC288)

Andy Warhol

1976

FEB. 1976: ANDY WARHOL DOES EXPOSURES.

ANDY WARHOL bought a camera - the Minox 35EL. At the time
it was the smallest camera on the market, allowing him to easily carry it
around with him. The book, Andy
Warhol's Exposures was conceived. (BC330)

END MARCH 1976: ANDY WARHOL'S BAD IS SHOT.

According to Bob Colacello, JED JOHNSON started shooting
Andy
Warhol's Bad in a rented studio on East 19th Street at the end
of March. (BC321)

According to David Bourdon, ANDY WARHOL'S BAD
went into production in Queens in the Summer of 1976 - a union production
costing over a million dollars with a screenplay by PAT HACKETT and GEORGE
ABAGNALO. JED JOHNSON, Warhol's boyfriend and the director of ANDY WARHOL'S BAD
had helped to edit the Warhol/Morrissey movies post-Lonesome Cowboys.
(DB360)

MAY 1976: REGINE'S OPENS.

Regine's nightclub opened on Park Avenue and 59th Street.
Warhol often stopped there on his way home after a night out "just for
a minute to see if anybody good is there." (BC281)

MAY 1976:HOLLY
WOODLAWN GOES HOME.

HOLLY WOODLAWN got a week-long engagement performing in Fort
Lauderdale. She stayed with her
parents and friend Richard Banks who had a home in Palm Beach.

After Florida, Holly tried to follow Sylvester's example
and go mainstream by taking advantage of the disco movement, but failed to
get a record deal. She moved to San
Francisco for awhile and then back to New York. (HW267-8)

1976: HOLLY WOODLAWN DOES WOMEN
BEHIND BARS.

Back in New York, HOLLY WOODLAWN was given the role of understudy
to DIVINE in TOM EYENs play Women Behind Bars, directed by
RON LINK at the Truck and Warehouse Theater in the East Village - across the street
from La Mama.

When BILLY EDGAR (who played Divines sidekick Louise) left
the show, Holly was given the role. When Divine left the show, it was announced
that Holly would replace her, but when Holly refused to go onstage until she was paid two weeks salary that was owed to her, she was fired from the production. Ron Link claimed that she was drunk during a performance and also accused
her of crushing beer cans onstage as well as ripping an earring off one of the girls
in the cast and punching her.

Unemployed, Holly took out an ad in Variety that said: Holly Woodlawn ... Now back from the coast - is available
for bookings in TV, Film, Stage, and Cabaret. Nobody responded. (HW271-2)

Andy Warhol

1977

1977: BILLY
NAME GOES HOME.

Billy returned to his hometown, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. after
hitchhiking around the U.S. After returning to Poughkeepsie, Billy Name went
back to college and got a graduate degree in business administration. (UW44)

When Billy telephoned Warhol and HENRY GELDZAHLER to say
hi, Henry told Billy that PAUL AMERICA had stolen Billy's Warhol paintings
and sold them to buy amphetamine. The stolen items were Billy's legacy gifts
from Andy, stored at Henry's apartment for safe-keeping. They included a Jackie
tryptich and flower paintings. (B)

1977:HOLLY
WOODLAWN DOES GERALDO.

HOLLY WOODLAWNs career was revived after appearing
on GERALDO RIVERAs talk show. The subject of the
show was sexuality and included a bisexual, various porn stars and CHRISTINE
JORGENSON. (HW277) Holly played Renos again.
JACKIE CURTIS occasionally showed up drunk and stoned on speed, heckling Holly
from the audience.

1977: RUPERT SMITH ASSISTS ANDY.

Rupert replaced ALEX HEINRICI as Warhol's silkscreen printer.
(BC365)

APRIL 26, 1977:STUDIO
54 OPENS.

The owners of Studio 54 - Steve Rubell and his lawyer Ian Shrager - had
become close friends while at college together in Syracuse and previously
had a successful club in Douglaston, Queens called the Enchanted Garden which
had been closed down because of complaints by its neighbors. (SL15)
The Studio 54 regulars included Andy, Liza Minelli, Bianca Jagger,
Halson, Truman Capote and Calvin Klein. (SL55)

MARCH 1977:ANDY WARHOL IS REMOVED.

Andy Warhol's name was taken off the front cover of Interview
magazine as news dealers thought potential readers assumed that the magazine
was always about Warhol. (BC391)

AUGUST 6, 1977:ANDY WARHOL HAS A BIRTHDAY
PARTY.

Warhol had a party at his Montauk house to celebrate his
49th birthday with FRED HUGHES, BOB COLACELLO, JED JOHNSON, PAT HACKETT, CATHERINE
GUINNESS, VINCENT FREMONT and fiance SHELLY DUNN (soon to become Shelly Fremont),
JAY JOHNSON, TOM CASHIN, SUSAN JOHNSON and her boyfriend BILLY COPLEY.

Warhol "stood on the edge of the room, snapping an occasional
Minox looking a little bored and very lonely" and then went to bed leaving
the others to celebrate. (BC345)

AUGUST 1977: VINCENT MARRIES SHELLY.

Vincent Fremont secretly married Shelly Dunn in Montauk after
wooing her away from Larry Rivers. They gave birth to their first daughter,
Austin Grey, in 1982. Andy Warhol was the godfather. (BC375)

AUTUMN 1977: ANDY WARHOL DOES SEX PARTS.

Andy Warhol began his Torsos and Sex
Parts paintings which he continued to work on for almost a year.
(L&D418)

THANKSGIVING 1977: ANDY WARHOL HAS A DINNER.

JED JOHNSON convinced Andy Warhol to have people over for
Thanksgiving dinner at Warhol's 66th Street house "after a big fight".

Dinner was served at the kitchen table rather than in the
"beautifully decorated" dining room because, Andy insisted that
the dining room was "too fancy to really eat in".

During the evening, Warhol sat in a chair turned away from
the table, watching television. According to Bob Colacello, Warhol was "dead
drunk", offering Colacello some 1952 Rothschild while slurring his words
and turning the sound up on the television. (BC345)

c. 1977 - 1978: THE PISS PAINTINGS.

Warhol's Oxidation Paintings are sometimes referred to as his Piss Paintings, although the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné classifies the Piss Paintings as works where "primed canvas had been stained with urine" in contrast to the Oxidation Paintings where "stained canvases were prepared with a metallic ground." The Oxidation Paintings have been attributed to 1977-78. There may have been earlier Piss Paintings although the cat. rais. notes that "all of the urine stained works" from Warhol's studio "suggest that they were all made at the same time in 1977 - 1978." (RN469) According to Bob Colacello, Warhol started doing the paintings in December 1977 (BC339), although the artist also made reference to his "piss paintings" in a 1976 interview. (See Andy Warhol's Piss Paintings.)

CHRISTMAS 1977:THE FACTORY PARTY.

JED JOHNSON showed up for the Factory Christmas lunch with
a bruise on his forehead, "where Andy had slammed a door in his face."
Warhol's gifts to the staff were Electric Chair prints which the
Factory could "barely sell for $200 to clients." (BC345)

For Christmas, Warhol refused to let Jed Johnson have a party
at their house, but FRED HUGHES, BARBARA ALLEN and BOB COLACELLO met there
before going to HALSTON's
Christmas Eve dinner. Warhol had the flu and "drank the larger part of
a bottle of cognac, claiming it would make him better." (BC346)

DEC. 31, 1977: BOB DALLESANDRO
DIES.

JOE DALLESANDROs brother, Bob, who had once worked
as Andys chauffeur for five years, was found dead in his apartment choked
to death after practicing auto-asphyxiation - something which Joe had also
practiced for a short period of time.

The police claimed the death was accidental but Joe believed
it was suicide. Joe's foster mother died not long after and, soon after that,
Joe's wife, Terry, served him with divorce papers on grounds of abandonment.

Still living in Europe and unable to cope with the deaths,
Joe started drinking heavily and using drugs again. His girlfriend, Stefania
left him after he attempted suicide by trying to hang himself while drunk.
(JOE27-9)

Joe and Bob Dallesandro

1978

JAN. 1978: ANDY PLANS A MUSICAL.

ANDY WARHOL and BOB COLACELLO met with producer LUCY JARVIS
at the home of EARL and CAMILLA MCGRATH to discuss doing a Broadway play of
Warhol's life. Andy wanted Shaun Cassidy to play him and Kate Smith to play
his mother. (BC370)

On the day that the disco Xenon opened, the Factory got a
telephone call saying that there was going to be a
bomb at the opening party but Warhol was going to four parties that night
and didn't know which one the caller was referring to. Later at Studio 54,
Bob Colacello maintained that Warhol was on vodka, Valium and Quaaludes. (BC366)

"Tom Sullivan came by to
show Cocaine Cowboys to us on a Betamax. He was smoking marijuana,
and it was funny to smell it at the office. Paul Morrissey watched a little
of it and said it was too slow, and Brigid was in and out and thought so,
too, but I liked it. And I decided I'm not so bad in it. They only let me
do one take and I think if I'd been able to do more I would have gotten better.
But I was better than in my first film, The Driver's Seat".
(AWD179)

JACKIE CURTIS staged his final fake wedding. The groom was
called Snakeyes and the bride (Jackie) was given away by Leo Castelli.

Jackie had met Snakeyes in the East Village when Curtis noticed
him hanging out his window and put him in his next play, Champagne.

At the wedding Jackie held up an astrological chart he had
made showing how his staged weddings had come full circle and why this had
to be the last one.

Curtis had first staged a fake wedding in 1969. This was
the the 8th and final one. It took place at No. 1 Fifth Avenue and was attended
by both Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat. Seated next to them was Jackie's
close friend, Melba LaRose, who had tap danced at Jackie's very first wedding
in 1969. (MLR)

AUGUST 1978:HALSTON GIVES WARHOL
A 50TH BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Bob Colacello: "Steve Rubell gave Andy a silver garbage
pail filled with one thousand brand-new dollar bills, and he and Victor [Hugo]
dumped it over Andy's head. Andy scrambled to pick up every single single
off Halston's floor". (BC384)

1978:HOLLY WOODLAWN MEETS
THE QUEEN MUM.

WOODLAWN went to London to perform her cabaret act for three
weeks at the nightclub, Country Cousins, and met the Queen Mother at the Old
Vic Theatre. (HW283)

1978:HALSTON RENTS ANDY WARHOL'S MONTAUK
COMPOUND. (BC347)

END NOV. 1978: ANDY, BOB AND FRED GO TO THE IRANIAN
EMBASSY.

ANDY WARHOL, BOB COLACELLO and FRED HUGHES attended dinner at the Iranian embassy on Fifth Avenue for the last time. At the dinner,
they discussed BRIGID BERLIN (POLK) who was going to Alcoholics Anonymous
to clean
up. (BC405)

DEC.1978:STUDIO
54 IS RAIDED.

The disco was raided by federal agents armed with guns and
a search warrant. Co-owner IAN SCHRAGER was arrested for possession of cocaine.
(www.drakkar91.com/54/) The FBI called the Factory
and asked to speak to Warhol. (BC423)

Andy Warhol

1979

1979: ANDY WARHOL'S INTERVIEW BREAKS EVEN.

Interview magazine finally broke even - the ad pages having
dramatically increased from 93 in 1976 to 162 in 1977 to 225 in 1978 and almost
400 in 1979 - although circulation remained less than 100,000. (BC393)

The series of short stories by Truman Capote began with the
February 1979 issue. They were later published in book form as Music for
Chameleons. Truman had appeared on Interview's January cover,
with an interview inside the issue. He also had a facelift in February. (BC406)

1979: JACKIE CURTIS GETS PUBLISHED.

Jackie's poetry was published in The Unmuzzled Ox: The
Poets' Encyclopedia. His poem, B-Girls, was the longest poem
in the book, taking up eight pages. It was based on the customers who hung
out at Jackie's grandmother's bar - Slugger Ann's - located on the lower east
side of New York.

SPRING 1979:ANGUS
MACLISE DIES.

The Velvet Underground's original percussionist died in
Katmandu, Nepal at the age of 41. According to his friend, Ira Cohen, the
"circumstances of Angus's death were, I suppose, closing walls of karma,
consumption & intestinal malady intensified or brought on by junk [heroin].
He is said to have ripped out the feeding tubes from nose & arm in the
last days..."(GMW123)

Angus MacLise in Katmandu, Nepal (ca. 1978)
(photo: Ira Cohen)

SUMMER 1979:HOLLY
WOODLAWN PLAYS KITTY WITH DIVINE.

HOLLY WOODLAWN was cast as DIVINES
sidekick, Kitty La Rue, in Neon Woman (based loosely on The G-String
Murders by stripper GYPSY ROSE LEE) for the summer run
in Provincetown. (HW287)

JUNE 1979:STEVE RUBELL
IS CHARGED.

STEVE RUBELL and IAN SCHRAGER, co-owners of STUDIO 54, were
charged with tax evasion, obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
(www.drakkar91.com/54/)

JULY 1979:ANDY, TRUMAN
& CURLEY PROMOTE.

ANDY WARHOL and TRUMAN CAPOTE did an Interview promotion
in Southampton, signing copies of the magazine. Accompanying Warhol was JAMES
"CURLEY" MELLON, who Bob Colacello referred to as Warhol's
"latest crush." (JED JOHNSON was still living with Warhol at the
time.) (BC408)

AUTUMN 1979: HOLLY WORKS
AT BENIHANA.

NEON WOMAN played Chicago to bad reviews and closed early.
HOLLY WOODLAWN returned to New York to a faltering career and ended up cutting
her hair and moving back to her parents home in Miami, getting a busboy job
at Benihana of Tokyo.(HW290)

NOVEMBER 1979: ANDY WARHOL PROMOTES EXPOSURES.

Andy Warhol went on a promotional tour lasting more than
three weeks to hype the book, Andy Warhol's Exposures.
(BC435) Washington D.C. was the first stop on the tour.
At a dinner for "a dozen capital grandees" at the Jockey Club at
the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Fred Hughes offered the wife of Senator John Heinz
some cocaine
while the Senator was interviewing Warhol for the television show, 20/20.
(BC434)

DEC. 1979:STUDIO 54 IS BUSTED AGAIN.

Studio 54 owners STEVE RUBELL and IAN SCHRAGER were busted
again - this time by 50 IRS agents. The bust came about as a result of a disgruntled
employee and an article that was published in the November 12, 1979 issue
of New York magazine. (www.drakkar91.com/54/)

The New York magazine cover story exposed Studio
54's List of Party Favors which included poppers for Bianca Jagger, cocaine
for other celebrities and "$800 for Andy Warhol's Garbage Pail on his
Birthday."(BC423)

Warhol's reaction was: "You mean they told me there
was a thousand dollars in there and it was only eight hundred? Oh, I knew
I should've counted it." (BC423)

The following month STEVE RUBELL and IAN SHRAGER were sentenced
to 3 1/2 years in prison and fined $20,000 each for tax evasion. They were
released after 13 months after informing on rival club owners. (SL61)